From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 14 13:50:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF6F158D9 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA57509; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:40:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:40:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Anthony Kimball Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-related problems In-Reply-To: <14100.62842.127882.239452@avalon.east> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Anthony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Poul-Henning Kamp on Wed, 14 April: > : > : 1. Demonstrate the need. > > Well, it's only needed if you want to be able to reliably execute ANSI > C code according to spec. I personally don't care. I'd be surprised > if core didn't though. I would suspect that it would be deemed worthy > of someone's p2 queue, at least. I can't understand this. Make software that causes a major performance loss, and loses *bigtime* in memory allocation, just so the one guy to complain *at all* can not lose sleep over something that has causes no problems at all with any ANSI code in a properly sized system. The complainant could not notice a problem in any program that didn't seriously over-allocate memory in the first place. His program is far more likely to work in our present paradigm than in the one he wishes everyone to use. I don't think he understands, at all, the global effects of his requests; he has blinders on, and is looking at one program, only, in a otherwise unloaded system. This is supposed to be important enough to hit someone's work queue? No wonder *you* won't do it. > > : 2. Implement it > : > : 3. Send patches. > > And I certainly don't care enough to do that!-) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message